“But among these there was not a man of them whom Moses and Aaron the priest numbered, when they numbered the children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.”
For the LORD had said of them, They shall surely die in the wilderness. And there was not left a man of them, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun — Only Caleb and Joshua survive, fulfilling the divine judgment pronounced at Kadesh (Numbers 14). Their survival marks them as the faithful remnant whose confidence in the LORD vindicated them through forty years of wandering. The second generation's arrival in the plains of Moab is the fulfillment of their predecessors' deaths and the promise of the inheritors.
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